Category Archives: Music

Playing pictures

Posted on 18th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

What does your favourite picture sound like? Want to find out? Here’s what I did: I took a screenshot of the DigiWriMo TAGS Explorer with MS Paint and ran it through Audiopaint which I had downloaded (free) a while back. I generated the … Continue reading →

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Roadtrip

Posted on 7th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

It started with Simon’s students Etienne and Loic who wrote a song about a road trip which Simon encouraged DigiWriMo peeps to record their own version. Several did, and you can find the lyrics and links in this Google Doc as well as in Simon’s … Continue reading →

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Creating an alternative CV

Posted on 28th October 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This November I’m going to be co-facilitating Digital Writing Month (#DigiWriMo) with Maha Bali and Kevin Hodgson. We thought that a fun way to lead into this would be to suggest that folk create an alternative CV. As a way … Continue reading →

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rhizoradio promos

Posted on 27th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

While we wait, with bated breath, for Dave to announce our #rhizoradio play, I thought it would be an idea to collate the various promos here. Kevin’s Thinglink Autumm’s Mr X loses his battle with objectivity (image by Angela) My … Continue reading →

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Playing pictures

Posted on 20th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Thanks to the amazing Kevin (@dogtrax) I am learning lots of new skills. Over the weekend he played some pictures of #rhizo15 and shared his method.  I’d been meaning to do something about an image that Simon (@sensor) had tweeted over … Continue reading →

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Rhizomatic follower of rhizomes

Posted on 16th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I blame Kevin … and Alan … I knew no good would come of hanging around with dogs, and not cats… Here’s an ode to Dave 😉 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201117570″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Lyrics here

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Not so private after all

Posted on 15th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

So here’s a funny thing. On Saturday I blogged about how I only played my uke in private. If you’d asked me about this at the time I’d have been adamant that nobody bar the cats was ever going to … Continue reading →

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Rhizomatic music

Posted on 28th January 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve been thinking a LOT about different ways of representing the rhizome recently.  D&G talk a lot about nomads living in smooth space and making felt (not knitting!) and I wondered what they’d be listening to during all of that. … Continue reading →

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The Spirit of the Age?

Posted on 11th January 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve just spent a while creating a blog post for my official uni blog only to find that the ability to embed YouTube is not enabled on the site 🙁 I was already grumbly and mumbling about corporate capitalists and … Continue reading →

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Spies Are Reading My Blog (David Rovics)

Posted on 6th November 2013 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve just downloaded David Rovics‘ latest album Spies Are Reading My Blog and am listening to it while Niall makes pizza.  There’s some great tracks, so far the title track is my favourite.  I subscribe to David, which means I’ve agreed to … Continue reading →

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